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Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It's Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn't be at the ballgame, shouldn't be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers's past, all of them occupying...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"For as long as he can remember, Curtis Pith has been obsessed with becoming a chef like Lucas Taylor, host of Super Chef. And Curtis has a secret: Taylor is actually his long-absent father. So when Taylor announces a kids-only season of Super Chef, Curtis finally sees his chance to meet his dad. But after Curtis wins a spot in the competition and arrives in New York to film the show, nothing goes as smoothly as he expected. It's all riding on the...
Author
Series
Barefoot William volume 5
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Professional baseball player Halo Todd doesn't like failure, but he can never turn down a challenge. Especially when there's a pretty woman involved. How else would he end up dressed as a rooster, helping a complete stranger compete on a wacky game show? Even when they're eliminated after the first round, Halo isn't about to lose the girl. Alyn is stunned when gorgeous, generous Halo whisks her off for a dream vacation to the beach--where she can't...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
It's not easy managing a baseball team ... especially when your team has lost 900 games in a row. But when manager Charlie Brown has the opportunity to trade his worst player, Lucy, he thinks his luck may have finally changed. Will Lucy's replacement, Marcie, led the team to victory? Or is Charlie Brown doomed to suffer through another losing season?
6) The natural
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Director's cut.
Language
English
Description
A once-promising baseball player on his way to stardom in the big leagues, finds his dreams shattered when a mysterious woman and a silver bullet end his career prematurely. Sixteen years later, armed with his childhood bat "Wonderboy, " comes back to baseball, joins the roster of the lowly New York Knights to see if he can overcome physical pain and the nefarious forces around him and lead his team to the pennant.
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Twentieth anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
Film about the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal. The young, idealistic White Sox players who, despite being pennant winners, are treated with disdain by their penny-pinching owner/manager. Ripe for a money-making scheme, the demoralized team agrees to throw the World Series. But when they're defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Madeline takes a transatlantic trip with Miss Clavel, her schoolmates and her pal, Pepito. After being discovered in the park by a Hollywood producer, Madeline heads to Tinseltown with her friends to star in a movie with the young starlet Sugar Dimples. When the jealous and bratty star has Madeline fired from the picture, Madelines' friends come to the rescue. Spring is in the air and Miss Clavel decides a trip to New York is in order. While all the...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Hanna-Barbera classic collection.
Language
English
Description
The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone, the Flintstones and the Rubbles travel to fear-fraught Rockysylvania thanks to a big game show win. Flintstones Little Big League sees Fred and Barney facing off as opposing Little League coaches while Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles duel across the diamond.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
" . . . follows the Robins, an underdog Little League team, through their 1974 season with newcomer and autistic baseball savant, Rafer. Team leader Zack takes Rafer under his wing despite taunting from their rivals, the Hawks. Their coach and the rest of the Robins encourage Rafer as the team rises towards an unlikely championship season that is less about winning and losing and more about living and dying."
12) Field of dreams
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
An Iowa farmer is inspired by a voice he cannot ignore to pursue a dream and turns his cornfield into a baseball field so that some baseball legends can come and play.
16) Baseball
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The story of America's pastime from its beginnings in the 1840s through 2009.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The game of baseball continues to reflect the complicated country that created it. Players and owners wage a battle over money and power; Cal Ripken becomes the game's new Iron Man; sluggers Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds do things that have never been done before; the Yankees build a dynasty, while their arch rivals, the Red Sox, stage the greatest comeback in history. In September of 2001, baseball offers the hope that things will one...
19) Jackie Robinson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family members and rarely-seen photographs and film footage.
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